Felder, Paula S. Forgotten Companions: The First Settlers of Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburgh Town (with Notes on Early Land Use). Fredericksburg, Virginia: Historic Publications of Fredericksburg, 1982. FHL Collection

DNA

The Germanna DNA Project's goal is to collect DNA samples from descendants of the Germanna Colony settlers of 1714 and 1717. More than 200 samples have been collected. The following surnames are included:

[Bainbridge] Buford, Marcus Bainbridge. A Genealogy of the Buford Family in America, With Records of a Number of Allied Families. San Francisco, Calif., 1903. Digital version at Internet Archive - free.

[Blaydes] Blaydes, Mary Douglas Meriwether. More than Skin Deep or Spotsylvania Ancestors of Maxey Lee Blaydes and Some of Their Connections: or Spotsylvania Ancestors of Maxey Lee Blaydes and Some of Their Connections. Lexington, Kentucky: M.D. Blaydes, 1979. FHL Collection Available at Virginia Historical Society.

[Crosthwait] Vance, Vida Leola Surber. The Missouri Crosthwaits - Crosswhites - Croswhites and Their Descendants: A Study of the Ancestry and Posterity of William Crosthwait, a Virginia Colonist in the Eighteen [i.e. Eighteenth] Century, from About 1695 to 1981. Mexico, Missouri: V.S. Vance, 1981. FHL Collection

[Dawson] Johnston, Francis Claiborne. The Tangled Trail of Benjamin Dawson of Orange and Spotsylvania Counties, the City of Richmond and Northumberland, Fauquier and Frederick Counties in Virginia and the Trail of Benjamin Dawson's Family by His First Wife, Mary Stevens (?) Dawson and by His Second Wife, Ann (Pope) (Roy) Dawson, in Virginia, Ohio and Elsewhere. Richmond, Va.: F.C. Johnston, n.d. Available at Virginia Historical Society.

[Ham] Whitley, Edythe Johns Rucker. Ham--Hamm--Farneyhough--Farneyhow--Warren--Lucas--Thrift: And Some Related Families of Virginia. MSS., National Library of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C.; Copy: FHL.

[Haynes] Strieby, Irene Macy, Frances Wales Haycock, and Mildred Hensley Homann. Brief Sketches of Henry Haynes, 1701-1784, William Haynes, 1727-1896, Richard Haynes, 1763-1850 a Father, Son and Grandson of Southside Virginia, Who Gave Aid to the American Colonies in the War of the Revolution, and Some of Their Descendants. Jacksonville, Fla.: n.p., 1964. FHL Book 929.273 H333s.

[Holladay] Collier, William H. William Edward and Nancy Eggleston Holladay: [Genealogical Notes on the Holladay Family of "Greenwood," Orange County, Va.]. Donated 1996. Available at Virginia Historical Society.

[Hull] Herndon, John W. The Hull Family of Northumberland & Spotsylvania Counties, Virginia: Together with the Hull Family that Moved to Northern Mississippi in 1838; Notes on Hulls Living Elsewhere than in Virginia, and Notes on Some Allied Families. MSS., Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, microfilmed in 1948; Copy: FHL. Available at Virginia Historical Society.

[Hume] Brockman, William Everett. Early American History: Hume and Allied Families. 2 vols. Washington, D.C.: Press of Charles H. Potter, 1916. Original edition available at FHL; 1926 reprint available at FHL.

[Jones] Clark, K. Porter. "Memories of a Long Life: By Bettie Churchill Lacy, Her Family and Friends," Fredericksburg History and Biography, Vol. 3 (2004):1-37. Available at Virginia Historical Society.

[Julian] Buford, Marcus Bainbridge. A Genealogy of the Buford Family in America, With Records of a Number of Allied Families. San Francisco, Calif., 1903. Digital version at Internet Archive - free.

[Kincaid] Kincaid, Eugene Davis. A Genealogical History of the Name of Kincaid with Certain Descents. Uvalde, Texas: E.D. Kincaid, 1987. FHL.

[Kirtley] Harper, Lillie DuPuy VanCulin. Colonial Men and Times: Containing the Journal of Col. Daniel Trabue, Some Account of His Ancestry, Life and Travels in Virginia and the Present State of Kentucky During the Revolutionary Period; the Huguenots, Genealogy, with Brief Sketches of the Allied Families. Philadelphia, Pa.: Innes & Sons, 1916. Digital version at Internet Archive; FHL Film 1421709 Item 2.

[Lacy] Clark, K. Porter. "Memories of a Long Life: By Bettie Churchill Lacy, Her Family and Friends," Fredericksburg History and Biography, Vol. 3 (2004):1-37. Available at Virginia Historical Society.

[Lewis] Lewis, George A. Lewis Congress, 1694-1894: Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of Their Residence in Virginia by the Lewis Family of Bel-Air, Spotsylvania County, September 4th, 1894. Frankfort, Ky.: Geo. A. Lewis, Printer, 1894. FHL.

[Lewis] Buford, Marcus Bainbridge. A Genealogy of the Buford Family in America, With Records of a Number of Allied Families. San Francisco, Calif., 1903. Digital version at Internet Archive - free.

[Marye] Marye, William Bose. "Records of the Marye [of Spotsylvania County] and Staige [of York County] Families of Virginia," The American Genealogist, Vol. 10 (1933):141-149. Digital version at American Ancestors ($).

[Mercer] John T. Goolrick. The Life of General Hugh Mercer. With Brief Sketches of General George Washington, John Paul Jones, General George Weedon, James Monroe and Mrs.Mary Ball Washington, Who were Friends and Associates of General Mercer at Fredericksburg; Also a Sketch of Lodge No. 4, A. F. and A. M., of Which Generals Washington and Mercer were Members; and a Genealogical Table of the Mercer Family. New York & Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1906. FHL Collection; digital versions at Ancestry ($); Internet Archive.

[Newman] Boogher, William F. Gleanings of Virginia History: An Historical and Genealogical Collection, Largely from Original Sources. Washington, D.C.: n.p., 1903. FHL; digital version at Google Books. [Includes a chapter titled "Genealogy of the Newman Family, 1618-1900," see Table of Contents; discusses Newmans of Spotsylvania County.]

[Page] Page, Richard Channing Moore. Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia. Also a Condensed Account of the Nelson, Walker, Pendleton and Randolph Families, With References to the Bland, Burwell, Byrd, Carter, Cary, Duke, Gilmer, Harrison, Rives, Thornton, Wellford, Washington, and Other Distinguished Families in Virginia. New York: Press of the Publishers' Printing Co., 1893. FHL; digital version at Google Books.

[Parrish] Parrish, June Jackson. Parrish--Parrish Family Record: A Compilation of the Available Records Covering Direct Descendants of Four Parrish Brothers: Henry, Joel, Ansel, and Absalom, Sons of Henry Parrish (1740) and Grandsons of Joel Parrish (1700): Also Descendants of Henry Jackson Parrish, Son of Hezekiah, a Brother of the Four Brothers Named, Grandson of Henry. Adel, Georgia: J.J. Parrish, 1948. FHL.

[Payne] Payne, John C., Toney L. Payne, and Gale Payne Nagy. The Big Payne Book: A History of the Payne Family of Virginia, Western North Carolina, Tennessee, and Missouri. J.C. Payne, 2007. FHL; digital version at FamilySearch Books Online - free.

[Roberts] Harper, Lillie DuPuy VanCulin. Colonial Men and Times: Containing the Journal of Col. Daniel Trabue, Some Account of His Ancestry, Life and Travels in Virginia and the Present State of Kentucky During the Revolutionary Period; the Huguenots, Genealogy, with Brief Sketches of the Allied Families. Philadelphia, Pa.: Innes & Sons, 1916. Digital version at Internet Archive; FHL Film 1421709 Item 2.

[Roberts] Vanice, William Roberts and Stanley Royce White. Roberts, a Family in Virginia and Kentucky from 1705: The Descendants of John Roberts, the Common Ancestor of this Family. 1977. FHL Collection

[Sandidge] Cooke, Margaret Watson. The William Sandidge Family of Virginia; the Julius Clarkson Family of Virginia & Kentucky; the William McConnell Family of Pennsylvania & Kentucky; the Ralph Hughes Family of Virginia and Son Thomas Hughes' Family of Kentucky; the Henry Tandy Family of Virginia & Kentucky: And Allied Families. MSS., National Library of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C.; FHL Collection

[Stubblefield] Vick, Mrs. J. Wells and Mrs. Edmon L. Crow. The Brown and Stubblefield Families: And the Allied Families of Priest, Lofland, Hackley, Mott, Shippey, Clarke, Boswell. MSS., available at the National Library of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C., microfilmed in 1971; Copy: FHL.

[Taliaferro] Rogers, W. Wayne, James F. Klumpp, and Eleanor T. Waters. "The Search for the Builder of Blenheim, or Which Taliaferro Married Jane Bankhead?" The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 2003):163-185. Digital version at American Ancestors ($); FHL Book 975.5 B2vg.